AS 28.05.091. Impoundment of Unlawful Vehicles.

A motor vehicle that is driven on a highway or vehicular way or area, and that has been determined to be defective in
equipment so as to be unsafe for driving, or on which the vehicle identification number has been removed, defaced, or
otherwise altered, is an unlawful vehicle and may be impounded by a peace officer or an employee of the Department of
Public Safety officially designated for that purpose. The owner or person in lawful possession of a vehicle that is
driven on a highway or vehicular way or area and that is so defective in equipment as to be unsafe for driving shall
pay the necessary costs of impounding and storing the vehicle. The impounding of a vehicle is in addition to any other
penalty. Nothing in this section prevents the driving or moving of a defective vehicle in the manner directed by the
peace officer or employee to a place for

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